It shall be this one's duty to offer recipes and menus. These will be easy to follow, and tested to be good enough that a slave would allow his Master to serve it to Master's Guests and reflect only the best of his Master.
For far worse than Master's anger is Master's disappointment.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

My Magical Components Casserole

This
dish was designed to not only provide a great hearty healthy meal in
one dish, but also to show how you can use any part of it to make
other great dishes.

Expand
your choices by finding the magic in the dishes you already know how
to make. You be the magician! The kitchen is your temple where you
can express all of the love, all of the need to serve, all of the
nurturing that you provide on a daily basis. If you have followed
slave for even a month now, you have become a chemist or as they used
to call it, an alchemist!

Try
this recipe and as many of the variations listed as possible. Then go
on to think up others! And when you do, please tell me.

Ingredients:

1
½ lbs Ground Beef

1
pkg frozen chopped spinach cooked and WELL drained.

1
pkg store brand Mac & Cheese (you will only be using the pasta)

½
cup chopped onion

2
large shallots minced

2
stalks celery diced fine

4
large cloves garlic peeled and minced

1
green pepper, diced finely

4
Tbs of yellow mustard

4
Tbs low sodium Worcestershire sauce

1
can condensed Celery soup (low sodium)

1
can condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup (low sodium)

1
5 oz container non fat plain Greek style yogurt.

1
½ tsp oregano

1
½ tsp basil

1
Tbs kosher salt

¼
ground white pepper

Cooking
Spray

Pre
heat oven to 350 and spray a 9x13 baking dish.

Spray
a large frying pan, Over medium low heat start sweating the chopped
onion, set timer for 4minutes, stir occasionally : remember if it
sizzles when you add onions, the pan is too hot. When timer goes
off, add the minced shallots, reset the timer for another 4 minutes.

Add
the minced garlic cloves stir for only 1 minute then add the chopped
celery and diced pepper. Continue to sweat the vegetables until they
are very fragrant and celery and peppers are still vibrant! About
another 4 minutes.

NOTE:
At this point the magic begins. Remove between 1/3 to ½ cup of this
to cool, then seal in freezer bag. When You want a fantastic dip,
again warm this over a medium to low heat and stir until the onions
start to turn brown. This is channelizing. When you get that color,
let it cool for 5 minutes and mix it with a 5 oz container of non fat
plain Greek style yogurt and everyone will rave about how good it is!

Now
then brown the ground beef in the same frying pan over a medium heat.
Remember you want it brown not just a “Grey”! Dollop in the
yellow mustard and cook, stirring, until all of the yellow is
absorbed into the meat. Now have the skillet lid handy, add the 4 Tbs
of Worcester Sauce and clamp the lid on. Lower the heat to a simmer
for at least 5 to 6 minutes.

NOTE:
again, more magic. At this point the ground beef will have a nice
more powerful flavor. Remove about half of the beef and mix in about
½ cup of the onion mixture, let cool, bag and freeze. Now the next
time you want to use one of those helper boxed dinners, thaw out this
beef and let it get warm in a medium high skillet and proceed with
the directions on the box. It will taste so much better than just
the ground beef alone. Also great as an addition on store bought
frozen pizza, just remember to only use less than ½ a cup.

Now
to continue with our casserole. Cook and drain just the pasta from
the mac and cheese box. Remember to subtract 1 minute from the lowest
cooking time on box. This is usually just enough time to microwave
the spinach.

NOTE:
again if you wish, omit the
spinach and continue to make the mac and cheese as the box directs
but stir in the heartier beef mixture and about 1/3 cup of the onion
mixture: fantastic!

Back
to the casserole: You are ready to assemble. Add the onion mixture
to the beef in the skillet and carefully stir in the condensed soups
plus the yogurt, cover and let simmer. If forgotten, pre heat the
oven to 350 degrees. When it reaches temperature. Spray the baking
pan. Un-cover the beef mixture and pull apart the chopped spinach and
stir it in until well incorporated. Now stir that into the drained
pasta and spoon into the baking pan. Cook for right at 25 to 30
minutes in the oven just to make everything is warmed and all flavors
mixed.

NOTE:
my friend Iron Chef Emmitt pointed out how versatile this mixture
was by saying “if you use Chicken instead of beef you have a French
casserole. If using Beef, by adding some taco seasoning, you have a
Mexican casserole, and by using diced tomato, more oregano, with a
bit of Parmesan Cheese on top you have an Italian casserole.

See
why slave refers to it as Magic? All of these great dishes from the
one basic recipe. What variations can you think of? Maybe soy sauce
and bean sprouts? Anyway you chose to make this have fun and enjoy!

Happy
to serve my Master Indy

socialslave

To
satisfy and restore.

To
nourish, support and maintain.

To
gratify, spoil, comfort and please,

to
nurture, assist, and sustain

…..I
cook!

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The
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